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By Clare Amari, Wisconsin Watch   Wisconsin imprisons Black residents at a higher rate than any other state in the country, a new report found, highlighting long-standing and deep disparities ...

A new Sentencing Project report confirms the state’s deep racial disparities in incarceration, which one advocate calls ‘a slap in the face.’

I was elected to the Wisconsin Assembly in 2016, and from the day I took office, I heard a lot about criminal justice reform: the need to allow for pardons and to expunge low-offense criminal records, the need to move 17-year-olds back to juvenile court, and the need to improve conditions at Lincoln Hills School, a juvenile corrections facility in northern Wisconsin. Since then, little action has been taken. Of all your tax dollars that Wisconsin collects, 7% goes to locking up offenders. By comparison, 6% goes to the UW System. Do we really want to spend more money on prisons than on univers...

COVID rate in Wisconsin prisons five times higher than state Follow Us Question of the Day Ramiah Whiteside of Milwaukee holds a sign during a protest outside of the Wisconsin governor’s mansion in Maple Bluff, Wis., on Nov. 24, 2020. Event organizers sought to draw attention to the thousands of inmates and staff who have contracted ... more > By VANESSA SWALES of Wisconsin Watch - Associated Press - Saturday, February 20, 2021 MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Calvin Johnson spent his final wee...